Joshua Logan, director, playwright and producer of stage, screen and television, was born Joshua Lockwood Logan in Texas in 1908. Educated at Princeton University he also studied in Moscow with Constantin Stanislavsky. During World War II he served in the Army Air Corps with a rank of Captain.
Logan made his New York debut in 1932 in the play Carrie Nation, playing the character Mart Strong. He quickly turned to directing and producing, directing Camille in Boston in 1933. His best known productions include I Married an Angel, Knickerbocker Holiday, Charlie's Aunt, This Is the Army, Annie Get Your Gun, Mister Roberts, South Pacific, The Wisteria Trees, The World of Susie Wong and Mr. President . His film credits include Picnic, Bus Stop, Sayonara, South Pacific, Tall Story and Ensign Pulver . Joshua Logan received the Pulitizer Prize with Rodgers and Hammerstein for the musical South Pacific . He died in 1988 at the age of 80.
From the guide to the Joshua Logan correspondence and ephemera, 1920-1989, (The New York Public Library. Billy Rose Theatre Division.)
